This spell is a part of the Frightful Touch spell chain and is found in the Frightful Touch rune stone.
Fear has always had weight. The timoramancer who has spent this long working with Presence and Dread understands that more intimately than anyone. The terror a person carries does not simply exist in the mind, it accumulates, it builds, it presses. Spectre of True Terror is the moment that weight is turned outward as force.
Every fear the target is carrying - every anxiety, every dread, every restlessness, every psychogenic fever, every status effect rooted in fear that has been building through this fight - becomes a weapon in the timoramancer's hands. The spectres that rise are not shadows. They are the target's own accumulated terror given form, turned back against its source with the full force of everything they have been unable to resolve or release. The base damage is 4d20 as the spectre strikes, but for every fear-based status effect the target is currently carrying, the timoramancer's Arcana is added to the damage again, the stack of unresolved fear compounding into something genuinely devastating.
A target carrying little fear takes a solid hit. A target the timoramancer has been carefully building toward this moment - one soaked in Anxiety, gripped by Dread, burning with Psychogenic Fever, haunted by Nyctophobia - finds that everything they were afraid of has just been handed back to them all at once. The spectre does not come from outside. It has been inside the targets all along.
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